Quotes by : William Golding

Sleep is where we touch what is better left unexamined. There, the whole of life is bundled up, dwindled.....

... People were never quite what you thought they were.

We're all mad, the whole damned race. We're wrapped in illusions, delusions, confusions about the penetrability....

I think women are foolish to pretend they are equal to men they are far superior and always have been.....

I do think that art that doesn't communicate is useless.

Perhaps there is a beast...maybe it's only us.

With lack of sleep and too much understanding I grow a little crazy, I think, like all men at sea who....

Philosophy and religion - what are they when the wind blows and the water gets up in lumps?

Life […] is scientific, that’s what it is.

I am by nature an optimist and by intellectual conviction a pessimist.